Foreign Business in China and Opportunities for Technological Innovation and Sustainable Economics (Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics) by Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Lytras
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1522589805, 1522589813 | 284 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Productivity remains the critical determinant of long-term national growth and prosperity. The effects of todays globalism on productivity demands the need for business organizations to sustain their competitive advantage and remain profitable over time.

Michael J. Hogan, Frank Costigliola, "Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, 3rd Edition"
English | ISBN: 1107054184, 1107637856 | 2016 | EPUB | 390 pages | 3 MB
A longtime classic in its first and second editions, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, 3rd edition presents substantially revised and new essays on traditional themes such as national security, corporatism, borderlands history, and international relations theory.

Luca Anceschi, "Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: Regime neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev era "
English | ISBN: 0415711436 | 2020 | 208 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book investigates the roles that ideas and constructs associated with Eurasia have played in the making of Kazakhstan's foreign policy during the Nazarbaev era.

Paradiplomacy in Action: The Foreign Relations of Subnational Governments By Francisco Aldecoa, Dr Michael Keating
1999 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0714649716 | PDF | 26 MB
Offering a general view of the development of subnational foreign action around the world, this work covers topics such as the repercussions upon subnational autonomy of the progressive consistution of international regimes such as the EU, NAFTA and APEC.

The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973 By Tino Balio
2010 | 362 Pages | ISBN: 0299247945 | PDF | 3 MB
Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L'Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and English-language films produced abroad. Nurtured by successive waves of imports from Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Japan, and the Soviet Bloc, the renaissance was kick-started by independent distributors working out of New York; by the 1960s, however, the market had been subsumed by Hollywood. From Roberto Rossellini's Open City in 1946 to Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris in 1973, Tino Balio tracks the critical reception in the press of such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray, and Milos Forman. Their releases paled in comparison to Hollywood fare at the box office, but their impact on American film culture was enormous. The reception accorded to art house cinema attacked motion picture censorship, promoted the director as auteur, and celebrated film as an international art. Championing the cause was the new "cinephile" generation, which was mostly made up of college students under thirty. The fashion for foreign films depended in part on their frankness about sex. When Hollywood abolished the Production Code in the late 1960s, American-made films began to treat adult themes with maturity and candor. In this new environment, foreign films lost their cachet and the art film market went into decline.

Lena Heine, "Problem Solving in a Foreign Language: A Study in Content and Language Integrated Learning "
English | ISBN: 3110224453 | 2010 | 228 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Although Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a popular teaching method, research on CLIL has nearly exclusively focused on aspects of language learning. Besides that, we are still lacking any cognitively well-grounded theory about the special features of contexts in which the focus is on content learning, but in which a foreign language is used as the medium of communicating information. This book re-examines the basis for CLIL from a cognitive perspective and investigates how the use of a foreign language as a working language influences the processing of content. It summarizes findings from cognitive psychology on thinking, problem solving and conceptual processing, and integrates them with models of language-specific mental activities such as speech processing and text composition. This provides a theoretically well-grounded basis for the understanding of the special features of CLIL, and promotes a Cognitive Linguistic perspective on CLIL pedagogy.The theoretical considerations form the basis for an empirical study that offers the first insights into what CLIL learners actually do when they solve content-focused tasks while using an L2. Through spontaneous verbalization of thought, detailed verbal protocols were elicited and analysed into language and content focused cognitive processes. The analysis shows that both language and conceptual thought interact closely and that a focus on language in general has positive effects on the processing of semantic content; the use of an L2 as working language can enhance this effect. Additionally, the study offers a thorough reflection and new perspectives on verbal protocols as research tools, in particular in L2 contexts.

A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films By Gerd Gemunden
2008 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1845454189 | PDF | 3 MB
With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute s list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Film historians and critics, as well as his colleagues, have consistently celebrated Wilder as an American master from the classic studio era. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from Central Europe? To study Wilder s work is to examine the reworking of several rich and varied cultural sensibilities, shaped by his experience of displacement. This book underscores these complexities, unpacking underlying contradictions where previous commentators routinely smoothed them out. Wilder emerges as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture and the avant-garde, features that lead to productive and often highly original confrontations between high and low.

Priya Chacko, "Indian Foreign Policy: The Politics of Postcolonial Identity from 1947 to 2004 "
English | ISBN: 041566568X | 2011 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The rise of India as a major power has generated new interest in understanding the drivers of its foreign policy. This book argues that analysing India's foreign and security policies as representational practices which produce India's identity as a postcolonial nation-state helps to illuminate the conditions of possibility in which foreign policy is made.

Máté Szalai, "The Foreign Policy of Smaller Gulf States: Size, Power, and Regime Stability in the Middle East (UCLA Center for Middle "
English | ISBN: 0367745208 | 2021 | 238 pages | PDF | 5 MB

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1501761056, 1501761056 | 235 pages | True EPUB | 7.06 MB
InChained to History, Steven J. Brady places slavery at the center of the story of America's place in the world in the years prior to the calamitous Civil War.Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the War of the American Revolution, Brady follows the military, economic, and moral lines of the diplomatic challenges of attempting to manage, on the global stage, the actuality of human servitude in a country dedicated to human freedom.Chained to Historyshows how slavery was interwoven with America's foreign relations and affected policy controversies ranging from trade to extradition treaties to military alliances.